Places imagreenbean Wants to Go

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

High seas history comes to life at this immersive museum with an on-site tavern.

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Amid miles of wooded trails lies the story of one of America’s earliest free Black communities.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

Some of the largest trees of their kinds exist throughout Williamsburg’s historic core.

The location where the American Revolution ended.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Constructed during the roaring 20s, this restored historic hotel recalls its past as home to the first in-hotel distillery.

The first federal construction project authorized under the Constitution

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.